Monthly Archive for February, 2009

: February, 2009

Former Washington basketball player Andrew Moritz will be on the minds of many who attend Thursday night’s UW-Arizona State game. A reserve guard who played sparingly but loyally for the Huskies from 1997 through 2000, going from walk-on to scholarship player as a senior, he has a rare of form of cancer that was detected in January and has left him with an survival outlook that is best described as challenging. …

Sports Illustrated made the connection the first time, dropping James Harden’s name in the same sentence with Brandon Roy’s. It was suggested that each basketball player is highly effective while using an understated elegance about the game rather than innate quickness. …

For last week’s California split, the Washington basketball team moved up one spot in the Associated Press poll, from 22 to 21, and holds a similar ranking in the ESPN USA Today coaches poll, trailing Illinois in each listing. …

For those of you wishing to make plans for the March 7 Washington-Washington basketball game, which concludes the regular season for both teams, tipoff has been set at 2:30 p.m., with the Saturday game televised live in high definition by FSN. …

Seventy-five minutes before tipoff for the Washington-USC basketball game, the black curtains are pulled on the north end of the Galen Center, covering six huge windows and hiding the stunning downtown views. Wonder what would happen if they played a game, night or day, with the natural light coming in? They do that at Edmundson Pavilion. … …

UCLA starting center Alfred Aboya is in uniform, bouncing around pre-game drills, goofing around with teammates and apparently no longer suffering from flu-like symptoms that dogged from last weekend and forced him to miss significant practice time this week. Big games have a way of getting players healthy in record time. … …

I’m sitting here in an almost empty Pauley Pavilion, feeling a little nostalgic on multiple fronts. Of course, there’s the strong likelihood that his is my last trip in a working capacity to this famous gym, what with the P-I likely disappearing as we know it in a month, so I’m soaking up this upscale basketball environment. …

Washington basketball freshman guard Isaiah Thomas was a guest on ESPN2’s First take on Wednesday morning, and he talked about things that are common knowledge across Seattle — that his name was the combination of a lost basketball bet by his father and the desire of his mother to come up with something biblical, that he wears Nate Robinson’s UW No. 2 because Robinson asked him to and Thomas’ normal No. 11 was already taken by Matthew Bryan-Amaning, and he patterns his game after Allen Iverson rather than namesake Isiah Thomas because he prefers more flash. …

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